Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hitler's Degenerate Artist

The "degenerate" artworks included in the exhibition had come

from the most unlikely of places: museums throughout Germany.

In 1937 Goebbels had organized a committee which was ordered

to seize such artwork from the State Museums. More than 16,000

works of modern art - including masterpieces of the highest quality-

were removed from these institutions' walls and stored in Berlin.

Selections of the most "disgusting" works were readied for

inclusion in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition.

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